How Adulteration Goes On.

HOW ADULTERATION GOES ON .

BOSCH BUTTER . BY PHULAX . THE following account taken from the useful and valuable Journal of the Society of Arts for March 26 thwill convince all readers how very sad

, , and we will add sickening , are the " amor mumnii , " as well as the dishonesty of trade amongst us all . It seems very hard upon us that we cannot rely on obtaining any of the " very necessaries of life , " unadulterated ! We beg our readers and the good housewives amongst us to weig h well these lucid and careful words .

OF late 3 ears , the trade in this article , both as a manufacture ancl export , has largely increased in the United States , and in the opinion of an American savant , it has already become a serious competitor in the market for anything but the finest class of butter . From the correspondence recently jrablished and presented to Parliament , it will be seen that several large firms in New York have undertaken the manufacture of oleo-margarine , the most important establishment being that of the Commercial Manufacturing Companywho also

, have , it is stated , a . branch house in London . This company has the exclusive right of manufacture in the State of New York , under a licence granted to them hy the American Dairy Company , which possesses the sole right from Monsieur Mege , of France , the inventor and patentee of the process , to issue such licences for the United States . Besides the factories in work in New York , tho following are also in operation : —Two in Pennsylvania ; two at Baltimore ,

Maryland ; one at Chicago , Illinois ; one at Cincinnati , Ohio ; and one at New Haven , Connecticut . The business of these establishments , however , is of a very limited character in comparison with that of the Commercial Manufacturing Company , which commenced operations in 1876 . As much as 500 , 000 lbs . of fat per week have been converted b y them into oleo-margarine butter . This rate of production has not always been maintained , for when the retail

price of genuine butter falls below 23 cents per pound , it does not pay to manufacture the imitation article . During the last two years , the quantity of fat manufactured into oleo-margarine butter by the last-named company has been , it is stated on trustworthy authority , about 200 , 000 lbs . per week , yielding 80 , 000 lbs . of oil and butter . Of this about 75 per cent ., or 60 , 000 lbs . per weekwas the oil product " oleo-margarine" all of which was exported

, , in barrels or tierces , for the most part under that name , but sometimes as "butter-fat , " or simply as " oil . " Therefore , it will be seen that this company exports yearly about 3 , 000 , 000 lbs ., a quantity which is nearly equalled by outside manufacturers , so that the total quantity of oleo-margarine exported from the United States maybe estimated in round numbers at about 6 , 000 , 000 lbs . yearhr .

It is the opinion of her Majesty ' s Consul at New York that the shipments of the outside manufacturers are made to Hamburg , Bremen , ancl other German ports , and also to Rotterdam , but none to the United Kingdom . In the case of the Commercial Manufacturing Company , their shipments are chiefly to Rotterdam , whence the oil is sent to a place called Oss , ancl other towns in Holland , where it is mixed with a certain proportion of milk ( to give it a butter flavour ) and colouring ingredients ( to perfect its resemblance to butter ) , and is there churned and converted into butterinc . It is then re-